How Effective is Your Online Marketing?

Many people struggle with their day to day routine. From the time they sit down in their home office with a fresh cup of joe, and are plagued with the anxiety created by the day’s marketing events.One of the best ways to avoid “paralysis of analysis” is to write out the next days activities before you go to sleep. This will help you to avoid the morning feelings of “I don’t know where to start”. It also helps to imagine yourself completing all the tasks with ease.

Allow your thoughts to bring you visions of how you will feel when you complete these tasks and the fun things you will get to experience when you are done. If you are having a hard time figuring out how to do something, i.e. getting information from someone or a great price on a product you need, ask yourself throughout the day, “where or how can I most easily get x”? and then let it go and move on with your day.

You’ll be surprised how the answers will pop up when you are at the gym, the grocery store, or where ever.When it comes to internet marketing, there are many paths one can take to make their marketing efforts successful. However, many of them can be costly.

If your budget is tight, article marketing can be a very helpful source to get your message out. We’ve all had experiences and many folks are experts in certain niche fields. People are always looking for new and improved ways to do the things they are doing. By writing articles, you will simply share much needed advice to people actively looking to be helped. This is also helps get your message and name out to the communities you are looking to target.

Branding is now becoming even more paramount as website marketing becomes flooded with competition. Just having a company landing page that looks like everyone else’s just won’t cut it anymore.

People are even more skeptical these days, and they want to be able to connect with the someone attached to a certain product or service. Landing pages or “squeeze pages” have been proven more successful when there is a specific person they can connect to. A simple picture with a nice introduction about who you are and how you can help is great.

Even more effective, is to shoot a video about you and the product or service you are recommending. Your conversion rates will be much higher using the video method.

A strong marketing plan is always valuable and it must be written down on paper. Otherwise you have ethereal wishes that continue to take up space in your mind and annoy you from time to time.

To be successful, you must plan your work and then work your plan. It is helpful to be able to cross off “money getting” activities as you go. This will also help you keep a log of your progress. There is no way way to track the effectiveness of what you are doing without this. If you don’t make note of it, you will continue to spin and recreate the same madness that is holding you back.

Buy or journal or a notebook. Type it in a file you will save online. Just make a record of it so you can chart your progress and move towards making money online.

How effective is your marketing? Only you will ever know this. But taking some baby steps in advance, like the night before, will allow you a sense of peace as you tackle the days events.

About the Author: George T. Hammett is an Advertising/Marketing Major from the University of Georgia. He offers cutting edge marketing tools and information to help you save time and make more money. His interests are world travel, screenwriting, and kite surfing.